198 SOME CHINESE VERTEBRATES. 
CoLOEUS NEGLECTUS (Schlegel). 
One old female, Tachienlu, western Szechwan, 10,000 feet altitude, July 20, 
1908. 
This specimen is rather larger than any in a series of five in the collection 
of the Museum of comparative zoélogy from near Pekin. Its wing being, 240 
mm. long, as contrasted with 231 mm. in the largest of the Pekin skins. Tachien- 
lu is also well beyond the known range of C. neglectus and very probably 
more specimens would show that a large race of the Black jackdaw occupies 
this region as well as a large race of C. dauuricus. We, however, hesitate to 
make such a separation on a single specimen. 
CoLOEUS DAUURICUS DAUURICUS (Pallas). 
Three adults, one male and two females, Ituhsien, Hupeh, February. 
CoOLOEUS DAUURICUS KHAMENSIS Bianchi. 
Six specimens, both sexes, including four adults and two young, Tongolow, 
and Tachienlu, western Szechwan, 10,000 to 12,000 feet altitude, July, and 
August. 
This fine large form, originally described from Kham, Tibet, is easily dis- 
tinguished from true C. dawuricus not only by greater size, but by the slightly 
different shade of its belly. Bianchi (Ann. Mus. St. Petersb., 1903, 8, p. 11) 
first recorded the form under a nomen nudum, C. major, and three years later, 
when describing it, Bull. B. O. C., 16, p. 68, used another name, C. khamensis. 
Sharpe, however, in the Hand List, gives both names, apparently overlooking 
the fact that they apply to one and the same form. 
NUCIFRAGA HEMISPILA MACELLA Thayer & Bangs. 
Bull. M. C. Z., May, 1909, 52, p. 140. 
Two specimens, an adult male, the type, from Hsienshanhsien, December 
11, 1907, and an adult female from Tachienlu, western Szechwan, September 23, 
1908. 
This form is only slightly different from the Himalayan bird, true hemispila. 
It is, however, smaller and has a shorter and thicker bill, but the pronounced 
character of the white spotting in the Chinese bird does not hold good when 
compared with a large series of Indian skins. 
